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Alert for medicine and medical equipment in Gaza

The Ministry of Health in Gaza issued the warning that there is a serious shortage of medicine and medical equipment in the area.

Rami al-Abadile, the director of the Fight Against Epidemic Diseases belonging to the Ministry of Health, in the press conference organized in Gaza said that there is very little medicine and medical equipments in the zone.

Abadile said that 45% of the medicines, 31% of the medicines and 65% of the laboratory materials were exhausted and affirmed that the drug deficit in the region alarmed.

Rami al-Abadile, the director of the Fight Against Epidemic Diseases said that this situation is caused by the blockade practiced by Israel in the area for 14 years and the cessation of the circulation of medicines by the Palestinian government in the West Bank with the start of the new type of coronavirus (Covid-19).

Abadile said that $ 100 million medicines were sent to Palestine in the framework of international aid to fight Covid-19, such as laboratory test materials and intensive care beds and that West bank he was unable to take his share of these grants.

Abadile called attention to the fact that the first intervention cannot be made in the event that the pandemic has spread.

According to the latest data in Gaza due to Covid-19 so far one person died and 81 cases were detected and 71 people recovered.

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